WELCOME GUIDE . PORTUGAL INCOMING PORTUGUESE NETWORK INTERCULTURAL CITIES 01 Olá! WELCOME GUIDE Portugal Incoming PORTUGUEE NETWOR O INTERCULTURAL CITIE WELCOME GUIDE . PORTUGAL INCOMING PORTUGUESE NETWORK INTERCULTURAL CITIES TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 02 INTRODUCTION LEGALIATION EMPLOMENT p. 03 p. 11 p. 15 03 04 05 OCIAL EALT EDUCATION ECURIT p. 19 p. 22 p. 25 06 07 08 ERITAGE UTICE LANGUAGE RELIGION AND ITOR p. 29 p. 32 p. 35 09 10 11 ACILITATOR UEUL GUIDE OR ATTACMENT ERICE WELCOMING EION p. 40 p. 42 p. 56 WELCOME GUIDE . PORTUGAL INCOMING PORTUGUESE NETWORK INTERCULTURAL CITIES 03 Bem-vindo/a! WELCOME GUIDE . PORTUGAL INCOMING PORTUGUESE NETWORK INTERCULTURAL CITIES 04 INTRODUCTION First of all, we would like to welcome you! When arriving in Portugal with the intention of settling down, sometimes it can be hard to access all the information you need to become part of the Portuguese society. Portugal is a country with laws and institutions that are open and favourable to immigration, as well as a country with a high number of emigrants. The cultural and religious diversity is protected by the law on religious freedom and the anti-discrimination law, and assisted by the existing support from the Portuguese State to the migrant and minority associations. Currently in Portugal, with a residence permit there are, according to 600.000 official statistics, around 600,000 people with foreign origin (between 4 to people 5% of the population), mainly from Brazil (22%), Cape Verde (7%), Romania with foreign (6%), Ukraine (6%), United Kingdom (5.5%), China (5.3%), France (4%), Italy origin (3.9%), Angola (3.8%), and Guinea-Bissau (3.4%) (in numerical order). It is estimated that there are more people of foreign origin living in Portugal who have not yet obtained the resident status or have informed the official authorities of the intention to extend their stay. All over Portugal, there are also important Roma communities (around 25,000 people) and a high percentage of descendants of migrants (2nd and 3rd generations) - data from the Migration Monitoring Centre 2019 and the Monitoring Centre of Roma Communities. However, we know that more than progressive legislation is necessary to make a place truly welcoming and ensure the inclusion of everyone. WELCOME GUIDE . PORTUGAL INCOMING PORTUGUESE NETWORK INTERCULTURAL CITIES 05 INTRODUCTION PORTUGUESE NETWORK OF INTERCULTURAL CITIES The Portuguese Network of Intercultural Cities is a network comprised of 13 cities (Albufeira, Amadora, Beja, Braga, Cascais, Coimbra, Lisbon, Loures, Oeiras, Portimão, Santa Maria da Feira, Setúbal and Viseu), which is part of an international network of 141 municipalities all over the world, committed to the creation of more inclusive cities. In these municipalities, executives and their employees are committed to the active promotion of local diversity, welcoming newcomer families and ensuring that everyone feels included. These cities have been working together in order to develop the essential activities and resources to make inclusion a reality and not only an intention. Among these Braga resources, it is possible to find this guide and the “Portugal Incoming” app, which is translated into 5 languages. In these Santa Maria da Feira resources you will find relevant information, which we expect will be useful to navigate Viseu the Portuguese society in a more fluid and accessible way. Coimbra The current guide compiles, in writing, the same information available on the app. This is an additional resource in downloadable PDF format, which can be printed to facilitate consultation and sharing with those who may have less ease with or access to digital media. It aims to be used as a support to those Amadora Loures arriving in Portugal, as well as by the technical staff of the support and welcoming services Cascais Lisboa that are helpful to everyone living here. Oeiras Setbal The “Portugal Incoming” app can be found here: https://incoming.bsb.pt/#/login/ Beja Portimo Albufeira WELCOME GUIDE . PORTUGAL INCOMING PORTUGUESE NETWORK INTERCULTURAL CITIES 06 INTRODUCTION RPCI MUNICIPALITIES ALBUFEIRA Albufeira (Algarve – southern Portugal) is a seaside city, with beautiful beaches, with a strong tourism-based economy, that gathers a large variety of nationalities. It aims to ensure equal opportunities and promote the autonomy of the population through its inclusion policies. In its great majority, these are social policies (housing, health, employment, education and family), which aim to respond to the psychosocial needs, through the promotion of fairness and well-being of the different population groups (children, young people, adults, elderly people, disabled people and migrants). It fosters inclusive activities, that value these different cultures (Portuguese classes, Multicultural events and gastronomy exchanges and information sessions), as well as local intervention projects with different communities. AMADORA The city of Amadora (Great Lisbon area) has a strong multicultural basis, which arises from the high presence of foreign communities in its territory and, according to the 2016 Immigration and Borders Service (SEF) data, represents approximately 9% of the total population divided by 99 different nationalities. In 2019, 104 different nationalities were registered as living in the city. However, if we considered both the nationality and the place of birth of the residents, this percentage increases to approximately 18%, which reinforces the position of Amadora as one of the Portuguese cities with higher cultural diversity. Given this reality and the importance the city and its institutions attribute to diversity, the Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants was built in 2015, which is already in its second edition (until 2020), and whose general objectives are to continue to work in partnership, foster synergies between existing resources, implement measures on subsidiary logic, and seek to set shared goals and responsibilities to enhance the opportunities that migration and diversity represent. The city prepared its own welcoming guide, which can be found here. BEJA The Municipality of Beja (Alentejo - southern Portugal) works for inclusion so that of everyone feels part of the Municipality, and advocates the appreciation of diversity and interculturality, offering the necessary solution for empathic and positive coexistence. To this end, launched in 2019 a team of mediators to intervene with the Roma and migrant community in the Municipality. This service aims to develop intercultural mediation as an intervention of third parties in social situations of significant diversity, in order to improve communication and peaceful coexistence, favoring the participation of the mediated in solving their problems. Under the Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants, in the design phase, this municipality intends to develop integration processes, encouraging more effective reception policies, through joint and properly articulated work between the different entities that operate in this area and the population itself, as a fundamental strategy for a more adequate management of migration flows and contribution to local development. WELCOME GUIDE . PORTUGAL INCOMING PORTUGUESE NETWORK INTERCULTURAL CITIES 07 INTRODUCTION BRAGA Braga (northern Portugal) promotes several practices to enhance equality in all contexts of community life, considering inclusion as fundamental for the development of the territory. It has recently been recognised as a good city for migrants, the elderly and families by the Eurobarometer, and is committed to creating conditions and quality of everyone. Annually it promotes the Municipal Week for Equality, where knowledge sharing on the theme of gender equality takes place. It also promotes a photo contest on equality, Intercultural Cafes and Human Libraries, where dialogue and interaction between different groups of people is privileged. As part of its annual migrant integration plans it promotes interculturality days, with debates and activities, and has a team of local intercultural mediators. In 2018 the city created an application (Braga Incoming) to enhance the integration of those who arrive in the county to visit or live. CASCAIS In Cascais (Greater Lisbon) reside people of 132 nationalities (12% of the population), mostly from Brazil, United Kingdom, Italy, France, China, Romania, Spain and Cape Verde. The municipality looks at this diversity of people residing in Cascais as an asset. The Municipality of Cascais has been innovating within the framework of migrant integration policies, trying to ensure conditions for all people to feel equally members of the community. Promoted in the various areas – health, cultural, social, educational, labor – this integration often translates into the support of the resolution of bureaucratic or linguistic-cultural issues. To ensure this support, in 2012 it joined the Intercultural Mediation Project in Public Services (MISP) and in 2015 the Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants (PMIM). In 2018 created the Intercultural Municipal Mediation Service (MMI) that ensures rights, responsibilities and increases the participation of foreign residents, facilitating their access to services and promoting a positive interaction between different communities. In 2019, it launched the Service for Foreign Residents in the Cascais Store and in 2020 also created a Municipal Reception Network for Migrants in Cascais. Currently, through the Cascais Integration and Multiculturalism Platform, it implements